Announcement:

[TK837]

Announcement: GemStone IV is now shutting down for a hardware upgrade that will take up to 4 hours.

[The Ponzzz]

There was a posting about it last week. They are upgrading to the 64 bit servers. This should be a great update.

[CrystalTears]

Heh, and they're doing it on the same day that WoW does their updates. No one plays today!

[Gan]

So what benefits can the player base expect from the upgrade to 64 bit servers from whatever bit servers they're using now?

[Alfster]

I was wondering that too, TEXT IN 64 BIT!

[fallenSaint]

In theory, a faster and more stable environment... please note my use of the word theory.

[MotleyCrew]

4 hours of Real World time = 16 1/2 Simu time

[Parkbandit]

Heh, and they're doing it on the same day that WoW does their updates. No one plays today!

You think this isn't by design? "We'll have no bored players trying out World of Warcraft!"

[Elvenlady]

It'll be back up RSN!

... a year later...

[Stanley Burrell]

www.gemstone.net

Edited to Add: Is a webpage.

Edited to Inlcude: With updates.

Edited: With said updates on above webpage.

Edited to also add and/or include: Your mother.

[Fallen]

Well, I don't know if it was the lack of people ON the server, but I can say the test instance (for me) was FAST AS HELL. Scripts flew by, 0 lag. None. I am looking forward to seeing what the actual game will be like in the 64 bit instance.

I think the biggest thing is lag generated by a lot happening in one room. Many were curious as to how GS would handle the Wonders of Elanthia Event. Their answer was the 64 bit servers.

[Gan]

OOOOH

Now we can watch an invasion instance in a single room scroll by so fast (ie. without lag) that we can watch our character go from glowing with spells to dead in 1/1000th of a second when 100 invaders mob a room at once.

Pretty soon we'll need to be able to read displays like what appeard on The Matrix just to watch all the happenings at once.

http://baixaki.ig.com.br/imagens/wpapers/matrix_048800.jpg

[AnticorRifling]

What kind of video card will you need for 64 bit text? :)

[fallenSaint]

What kind of video card will you need for 64 bit text? :)

Video Card? Man your goin to have to upgrade to some VR to handle the shit that'll be flyin at ya.

[Drunken Durfin]

Wow, GS upgrade broke DR...nice.

From the Officials:

We uncovered a couple of fairly serious issues (one serious enough that it will likely result in all instances of DR being reset to implement the fix there, too) which are causing some minor delays in getting GS back up and running.

I will try to update when we get an ETA, but I'm trying not to pester the techies into stopping what they're doing in order to give me an estimate that may be a wild guess anyway. :)

Solomon

[fallenSaint]

The upgrade is so powerful its taking over other worlds ...